A Woman Under the Influence was my favorite. I loved doing that. And it was challenging.

Of course I would change anything if John Cassavetes said so - it's his script. But he was very easy about that.

So many people mistakenly think that the rest of his [John Cassavetes] pictures and the ones we did were improvised, which isn't true. He wrote all the rest of them.

I read the script of [Woman Under the Influence ] 50 times. And I thought about it. And then I did it.

A Woman Under the Influence was my favorite. I loved doing that. And it was challenging.

John Cassavetes wrote A Woman Under the Influence as a play. He said, "Hey, I wrote you a play." And I said, "Great, let's read it." I read it and I said, "John, I couldn't do this every night and twice on Wednesday and Saturday".

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